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TorfE Lv 3I

Russell Poole (ed.) 2012, ‘Torf-Einarr Rǫgnvaldsson, Lausavísur 3’ in Diana Whaley (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 1: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 1. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 134.

Torf-Einarr RǫgnvaldssonLausavísur
234

text and translation

Ey munk glaðr, síz geirar
— gótts vinna þrek manni —
bǫðfíkinna bragna
bitu þengils son ungan.
Þeygi dylk, nema þykki
— þar fló grár af sôrum
hræva nagr of holma —
hól undvala gœli.

Munk ey glaðr, síz geirar bǫðfíkinna bragna bitu {ungan son þengils}; gótts manni vinna þrek. Þeygi dylk, nema hól þykki {gœli {undvala}}; þar fló {grár nagr hræva} af sôrum of holma.
 
‘I will be forever glad now that spears of battle-keen men pierced the young son of the king [= Hálfdan]; it is good for a man to do a heroic deed. Not at all do I conceal the fact that it seems like vaunting to the comforter of wound-falcons [RAVENS/EAGLES > WARRIOR = Haraldr]; there the grey bird of corpses [EAGLE] flew from the wounded over the islands.

notes and context

Orkn places this immediately after Lv 2 following its account of Hálfdan’s death. Fsk includes it without assigning a narrative context (cf. Context to Lv 1 and 4).

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Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.

editions and texts

Skj: Torf-Einarr jarl, Lausavísur 3: AI, 32, BI, 28, Skald I, 17, NN §2214; Orkn 1913-16, 12-13, ÍF 34, 14-15 (ch. 8); Fsk 1902-3, 297-8 (ch. 64), ÍF 29, 293 (ch. 74); Finnur Jónsson 1884, 98, von See 1960, 34.

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